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1 /*
2  * Copyright 1999-2004 The Apache Software Foundation.
3  *
4  * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
5  * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
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9  *
10  * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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15  */
16 /*
17  * $Id: DOMSerializer.java,v 1.3 2004/02/17 04:18:18 minchau Exp $
18  */
19 package com.sun.org.apache.xml.internal.serializer;
20
21 import java.io.IOException JavaDoc;
22
23 import org.w3c.dom.Node JavaDoc;
24
25 /**
26  * Interface for a DOM serializer implementation.
27  * <p>
28  * The DOM serializer is a facet of a serializer. A serializer may or may
29  * not support a DOM serializer.
30  * <p>
31  * Example:
32  * <pre>
33  * Document doc;
34  * Serializer ser;
35  * OutputStream os;
36  *
37  * ser.setOutputStream( os );
38  * ser.asDOMSerializer( doc );
39  * </pre>
40  *
41  *
42  * @version Alpha
43  * @author <a HREF="mailto:Scott_Boag/CAM/Lotus@lotus.com">Scott Boag</a>
44  * @author <a HREF="mailto:arkin@exoffice.com">Assaf Arkin</a>
45  */
46 public interface DOMSerializer
47 {
48     /**
49      * Serializes the DOM node. Throws an exception only if an I/O
50      * exception occured while serializing.
51      *
52      * @param node the DOM node to serialize
53      * @throws IOException if an I/O exception occured while serializing
54      */
55     public void serialize(Node JavaDoc node) throws IOException JavaDoc;
56 }
57
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